Jaime Pérez González is a Tseltal (Maya) researcher, writer, and translator from Tenango, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. He is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his master’s in American-Indian Linguistics at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, Mexico).
Since 2008, he has worked on different Tseltal language documentation projects as a collaborator and as a research assistant, and as a researcher. Among the topics he has worked on during these projects are Dialectology and Lexicography (building dictionaries). He started to work on Mocho’ (a cousin Mayan language) in 2015, and he is currently the Principal Investigator of the project “Documentation of Mocho’ (Mayan): Language Preservation through Community Awareness and Engagement” sponsored by the Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP). His research goes from Descriptive Linguistics, Language Documentation and Language revitalization. He has written about fieldwork methodologies, and he is currently working on a Descriptive Grammar of Mocho’.
Things mentioned in this episode:
Ep 10: Fieldwork Q&A with Vera Ferreira & Hugo Cardoso (Part 2)
Ep 9: Fieldwork Q&A with Vera Ferreira & Hugo Cardoso (Part 1)
Ep 8: Lauren Gawne on Funding Fieldwork
Ep 7: Community Collaboration for Language Documentation in the Tanzanian Rift Valley with Andrew Harvey
Ep 6: Madoka Hammine on Insider Research in the Ryukyus
Ep 5: Khairunnisa on Insider Researcher Language Documentation on Sasak
Ep 4: Hugo Cardoso on Researching Creoles in Sri Lanka & India
Ep 3: Lyle Campbell on Language Documentation in the Americas
Ep 2: Vera Ferreira on Linguistic Fieldwork in Europe
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